Last week, development ministers from the OECD and emerging economies met in London for the High Level Meeting of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Despite development successes over the past 20 years and the progress of many emerging economies, the ministers present noted that inequality is increasing in all countries and 1.4 billion people still […]
Last night, UK Secretary of State for Development Justine Greening launched the UK Aid Transparency Challenge, calling on international donors to do more to make their aid delivery more transparent. Speaking at a Publish What You Fund, BOND and UK Aid Network event in London, Greening also announced the Aid Transparency Challenge Fund, which will encourage the development of tools to improve traceability of aid and […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday launched a new online portal allowing open, comprehensive public access to data on the agency’s work in 177 countries and territories, fulfilling a commitment to full transparency by 2013. “Transparency is a top priority for UNDP and a vital element in maintaining the trust vested in us […]
Publish What You Fund has begun to work on bridging the gap between aid transparency and climate finance. This week, as international climate change delegates meet in Doha, we teamed up with Climate and Development Knowledge Network and ODI’s Climate Funds Update to highlight the potential for the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) to be […]
Joint blog post by aidinfo Team Lead Simon Parrish and Director of Publish What You Fund, David Hall-Matthews. This week sees the IATI Secretariat announcing the milestone of 100 IATI publishers. This is a fantastic achievement and one which we should celebrate. While some prominent transparency champions – including the UK, World Bank, and the Hewlett […]
Today, UN Women became the 100th publisher to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). David Hall-Matthews, Director of Publish What You Fund, said: “This is encouraging news. We are impressed by the number of agencies and NGOs who are now publishing their information to IATI, alongside major donors such as the World Bank and DFID. IATI is the most useful […]
